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necessarily have been made, for defraying the great expenditures of embodying and sustaining the militia requisite for effecting the intended object. In the month of October last, information was received that a number of the inhabitants of Madawaska had organized themselves into a corporation, chosen municipal officers, and subsequently a representative and that in consequence of these acts, the Lieutenant Governour and other authorities of New Brunswick, accompanied with a military force, had proceed to Madawaska, arrested a number of American citizens, who were carried to Fredericton and there imprisoned. Though the measures adopted by the inhabitants. Voluntarily organizing themselves into a corporation at that place, then claimed to be under the actual jurisdiction of the Province of New Brunswick, were unexpected by me, and under taken without my knowledge, yet as they acted in territory known to be within the limits of Maine, and in obedience to the law and Constitution.